A woman was transported by air ambulance to Kansas University Hospital Sunday afternoon after she suffered serious injuries in an east Lawrence car-pedestrian hit-and-run accident. Enlarge video

A woman was transported by air ambulance to Kansas University Hospital Sunday afternoon after she suffered serious injuries in an east Lawrence car-pedestrian hit-and-run accident.

According to Lawrence Police Sgt. Mark Warren, the incident started when a man and the woman became involved in a verbal and physical altercation outside a residence in the 1200 block of Almira. The man entered a vehicle. When the woman attempted to enter the car, the man shoved her out. He then backed the car over the woman, resulting in serious injuries.

The man drove southbound from the scene, striking a parked car a short distance away. Police arrested the man in the area of the incident at 4:53 p.m., 19 minutes after the original call was dispatched. The man was arrested on charges of aggravated battery and leaving the scene of an injury accident, among other charges, Warren said.

A LifeStar helicopter, which landed near the intersection of 11th Street and Haskell Avenue, departed for the hospital at 5:27 p.m.

Its too bad things like this happen. She was a mental case. She always had conflict in her life. She just had another man put away for 10months for fighting. I seen this coming long before this. It doesn't look like she will ever get her kids back from SRS after this. Maybe she will realize she doesn't need men in her life. She always acts crazy and wants to fight with them. I feel sorry for the innocent children that have to grow up with a mother like this.

Don't want to take sides here but what if she jumped behind the vehicle while he was trying to back up. I certainly wasn't there but that could also be the case. I do hope she pulls through this and realizes that she needs to handle conflict in a less confrontational way, and he needs to learn the same lesson.

Good job blaming the victim, Blackjack. You don't think the guy who pushed her out of a car and tried to run her over has any responsibility for what he did? You act like she deserved it since you "seen" it coming. Classy.